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Most charities instantly agreed that databasing was logical. The significant holdout was the American Red Cross. Dr. Bernadine Healy cited a strict organizational policy against sharing victim information because of privacy concerns. Spitzer countered that the database would be overseen by an independent accounting firm, not a government agency, and would be confidential. Healy wouldn't budge, and last Friday she was forced out by her own board...
Individual caseworkers for up to 25,000 people may seem impractical, but one organization that's amenable to taking on at least part of the burden is Manhattan-based Safe Horizon. With 800 employees, it is the largest victim-assistance organization in the country. To date, Safe Horizon has given 11,280 people checks averaging about $900, most of them written on the spot. It is widely viewed as one of the relief effort's most effective agencies. After targeting a need--short-term funding for people who lived and worked near ground zero--Safe Horizon's CEO Gordon Campbell...
...nation that is the victim of terrorism has the right to strike at the roots of that terrorism. But here's the moral contradiction: if the U.S. has the right to bomb terrorist camps in Afghanistan, then why doesn't India have the right to bomb terrorist camps in Pakistan? The moral imperatives are exactly the same. To tell us, as some Western observers have, that we should not fight terrorists but instead engage in a dialogue with Pakistan over Kashmir is not particularly useful. It is like telling the U.S., "Don't bomb Osama, talk...
...HUPD officers took a report of an assault at Emerson Hall. The victim was pushed...
...syndrome also causes a persistent and often unconscious use of certain buzzwords to describe Harvard students. Like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, with his constant repetition of “Wopner…Wopner time…Wopner’s on,” a victim of the Harvard Syndrome inevitably resorts to terms like lazy, arrogant, spoiled, overrated and elitist whenever our university comes up in conversation. Often, they will have little or no actual experience of Harvard, beyond a tour and perhaps a disastrous interview. Indeed, the sufferer may even have no idea what polysyllabic words like...